Word: mediterraneans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Protected Treasure. The invention of Aqua-Lungs, says University of Pennsylvania Archaeologist George F. Bass in The American Scholar, has opened rich opportunities for students of the past. Ever since the Stone Age. says Bass, men have sailed the Mediterranean. Often their ships came to grief, carrying to the bottom samples of the goods and treasures of each period of history. Under the deep, still water, the wrecks and their cargoes rested for thousands of years, protected from the plundering hands of later generations...
...revolutions within a single month have thus put the Baathists into power in two nations stretching from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf. The Baath party strongly emphasizes unity with all Arab states, including Egypt, but rejects dictatorship by anyone, ineluding Nasser. Its philosophy calls for ittihad, loose federation, and pledges overall allegiance to uruba, a pervasive Pan-Arabism. When news of the Syrian revolt reached the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, a military parade was transformed into a victory celebration, with long lines of citizens and students snake-dancing through the city. In Cairo, Nasser's men hailed...
...aircraft carrier Enterprise, operating with the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean, has had for about a year its own self-contained TV station, broadcasting training films, ship's basketball games. Wagon Tram, Perry Mason, and bosomy French lessons by Actress Dawn Addams onto 85 TV screens on the carrier's closed circuit. The sailors paid for it themselves through bingo, raffles, and so on. Pitying the little destroyer escorts and other pint-sized ships that always knifed around the "Big E" carrying nothing but radios, the Enterprise crew raised more money and installed a transmitter. Last week WENT...
...their fertile plateau, 930 feet above the Mediterranean, the Moslem citizens of El Marj (pop. 13,000) welcomed the sunset one day last week. It brought to an end another day-long fast imposed by the holy month of Ramadan. Families gathered at table to break their fast with the traditional Ramadan dinner-and many died where they were sitting, for sunset brought the shock and terror of the worst earthquake in Libyan history...
Normal Torpor. By week's end Iraq seemed settling down into the normal torpor of an Arab state after a coup d'état. Oil flowed uninterruptedly through the pipelines to the Mediterranean. Shops, schools, and government offices reopened. The curfew was gradually extended from 3 in the afternoon until 11 at night, and in the coffeehouses men were gossiping and playing backgammon...